The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now accepting applications for its Summer Research Team Program (SRT). Faculty from Minority Serving Institutions are encouraged to submit applications for their faculty-led student research teams to spend 10-weeks conducting research at university-based DHS Centers of Excellence (DHS Centers).

Faculty will earn $1,200 a week; undergraduate students $600 a week. Eligible areas of research include engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological/life sciences, environmental science, social science, and more. The program website will provide more information on DHS Areas of Research.

U.S. citizenship is required. The deadline to apply is December 29, 2017, 11:59 EST.

Extraordinary senior or junior scholars at Spelman are invited to submit their names for consideration. Because the fellowship program aims to support the social sciences and humanities, proposals should “incorporate historical precedents, cultural underpinnings, and/or moral arguments.” This fellowship is available only to U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

Faculty wishing to be considered for nomination should forward a CV and one-page project summary to Claudia Scholz by October 30, 2017.

If you are selected as the nominee, you must prepare a prospectus, budget, and summary, as well as submit your photo, CV, abridged CV and nomination letter by November 17, 2017. Fellows will be selected by April 2018.

Projects must be research-based and fall into one of the eligible topic areas:

Strengthening U.S. democracy and exploring new narratives

Possible topic areas include, but are not confined to, inequality, access to education, religion, gender, race, migration and immigration, the widening poverty-wealth gap, political polarization, civic participation, individual rights and privacy, forms of cultural expression, incarceration, judicial and criminal justice reform, rule of law, the voting process, the party system, and the public good.

Technological and cultural creativity—potential and perils

Possible topic areas include, but are not confined to, cybersecurity, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, the impact of technology on privacy, civic participation, impact of traditional and social media, accountability of tech industry, challenges to and varieties of individual expression, the power of imagery, approaches to death and dying, cognitive science and human creativity, definitions of the human and the post-human, and ethical issues raised by medical and scientific research.

Global connections and global ruptures

Possible topic areas include, but are not confined to, threats to democratic institutions; nationalism; national sovereignty; human rights; race; gender; religion; access to education; migration and immigration; refugee crises; demographic changes; challenges to cultural legacies; national security and civil liberties; poverty; terrorism; international law; nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons; war and peace in the 21st century; and translation, transmission, and transformation of cultures.

The NSF IUSE:EHR Program invites proposals which address current challenges and opportunities facing undergraduate STEM education. In addition, proposals that anticipate new structure and functions of undergraduate learning and teaching are also encouraged to be submitted for consideration. The goal of the IUSE:EHR Program is to facilitate the provision of highly effective, evidence-based teaching and learning experiences for undergraduate students in STEM courses.